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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
  • Four Past Midnight by Stephen King
  • Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Zodiac by Neal Stephenson. I like the narrator's "voice".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

I usually don't stay engaged with non-fiction, but this book I couldn't put down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I am reading the first book of the series Empire of the Moghul right now.

Classified as historical fiction, it is very interesting to see how the kingdoms evolved and spread in Central Asia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Segans " The Demon Haunted World"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Necropolis" (Gaunt's Ghosts 3) by Dan Abnett. Whole lot of Warhammer 40k goodness.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Empire of Ivory by Naomi Novik.

[–] nueromancer 1 points 2 years ago

Elantris by Brandon Sanderson. Actually I'm at 52%. The reason I stopped because of exams

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Douglas Adams Starship Titanic: A Novel by Terry Jones

I think that is the official title. It's set inside the wider Hitchhikers universe, but so far hasn't touched on the events of that series.

Did take my a fair bit of time to get Into it, but as I approach the halfway point it's definitely got me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Rereading Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melniboné, so I can read the new book, The Citadel of Forgotten Myths. Been a few moments since I did a full reread.

I have Greg Egan's Scale and John Shirley's Stormland next on the tsundoku.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Engine Summer by John Crowley. I'm only about 100 pages in, but liking it so far.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Ministry for the Future. So good, so painful.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The Bayern Agenda by Dan Moren. It’s decent. Wouldn’t say it’s my favorite yet and I’m halfway through. There’s a lot of talking in rooms for a political action sci-fi series. Pace is a bit slow for my taste.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I haven’t started it yet but my next book is The Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds.

Within the last month or two I’ve read Song of Achilles, The Women Could Fly, The Book Eaters, and Babel. I’d recommend all of them, especially Babel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The enterprise of death, it's a fun read

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Advanced Marathoning

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm reading a few actually: Capital volume 2 by Marx, The Tondrakian Movement by Vrej Nersessian, and Primavera con una esquina rota by Mario Benedetti

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Pride and Prejudice, it's fine so far

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff. It plays in a alternative medivial fantasy world where the sunlight gets blocked after a loud rumbling. It tells the story of a you man who gets recruited in a organization of hunters that kill the supernatural while the world gets conquered by the vampires, that can't be hurt by the sun anymore.

One of the best dark fantasy books, I have read in a long time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't know if it counts as "in the middle", but I left off reading a book about heaven 8 had borrowed from my mom before I lost religion, and completely lost interest in it.

Don't think I'll ever go back, but that's the book I left unfinished. Haven't read anything in years. I was big on audiobooks for a while before I couldn't afford audible anymore.

Used to have a job that I could listen while I worked on my own and because of that I was able to go through a bunch of them.

One I get through my current medical condition (probably a few years off) and I go back to work, I hope I get another job like that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The Book That Wouldn’t Burn by Mark Lawrence

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson. Recommend if you like historical fiction & the 20s.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Reddit is coated in a thick white layer of spez.

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